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I am a huge fan of RAZER ❤️❤️
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Hey Insiders!

Razer Insider has celebrated years of great conversations. On top of that, we've seen Razer grow bigger and better and we have you, the fans to thank. In celebration of reaching over one million registered users on Insider, we want to show our appreciation for YOU, our fans, our very own Razer Insiders.

Gaming is an essential part of our lives. Whether we started with a controller in our hands, played command based games on two color screens or chased pixel blocks on our phones, there was a defining moment you realized, you were a gamer. A moment of epiphany that gaming wasn’t something that you did to pass the time. That gaming was the thing you thought of even when you weren’t gaming. That longing you felt because you were so connected to those unforgettable characters. The immersion of the world that sucked you in. Being unable to sleep at night because you were stuck in the game. Share that defining moment with us for a chance to get your hands on our Razer, Represent Prize Package which includes:

  • Razer Rogue 15.6'' Backpack V2
  • Razer Rising Snapback Cap
  • Razer Elite Dark Side Tee

And for those who share really great stories, we'll drop you some Silver in appreciation for sharing your moment with us.

Entering is simple: registered Insider members must reply to this thread. A winner will be chosen at random and notified through Razer Insider via direct message.

Let us celebrate you. Tell us your story.

All my first in the pc gaming world were razer products back when I was rocking a gtx 270. They lasted me forever and I finally got to upgrade to the huntsman elite. Id love a dark side of razer shirt being a massive pink floyd fan for my whole life
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My first experience with Razer was my Razer tarturus I bought to play wow cuz I needed something that more comfortably fit my big hand and hit all those abilities back in MoP. Shortly after I bought my naga 2014 edition and have been in love with Razer products. Everything from ergonomics to astetics. Just recently bought my Razer phone 2 and so far I loved everything about it and also got my hands on a Razer blade 2016 15 inch. This thing surprises me everyday on how well it preforms. I've tried corsair, Logitech, etc. Nothing has campared in my eyes and the fact that it took this long to get 1 million fans really surprises me. I've been a gamer since I was 5 years old when I got my first Gameboy color and Pokemon red and I've been hooked ever since. I would have never thought gaming would have taken off the way it day and I'm grateful to be a part of a community like this. We yell at each other and fight over the mic but at the end of the day we're all gamers and the reason to get so angry is because we are so passionate. Still to this day some gaming trailers give me hype tears lol But great job Razer and congrats on one million. Heres to 10 million more.
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I'm not much of a gamer but my best moment was when i replaced my corsair k70 mk2 for hunstman elite . The feel of the keyboard is heaven. I should have bought a Razer keyboard from the get go. It's smooth like butter and there is less tiring from typing, my gaming is software development so the less strain i have on my wrists and fingers It's heaven for me.
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The best gaming moment for me was a reaching the diamond rank in Heroes of the Storm 😃
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When you're a young teenager, being a "gamer" is just not the case, cause everyone plays a bunch of games in that age… I think i realized that pc games mean something to me, when i spent significant amount of money I've made on summer job for gaming gear such as better gpu, better monitor, razer mouse and razer keyboard… Spending someone elses money is always easier. Now i am not only gamer, but also university student, which means low budget on everything and that old razer mice still serves me well as a laptop mice, so i will never regret my razer purchases..
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Razer got me back to my own self ,i was a former US Army Active duty , im medical retired. I was deployed to afghanistan and i saw things due to that i have PTSD and some injuries , i lost interest in everything , my wife was reading that razer is the best on gaming devices , she bought me a blackwidow keyboard and the feeling of the keyboard was amazing nothing i felt before,bringing me back to gaming. thanks razer for make me feel alive again.
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When I got my 1st Arctosa Keyboard black on black, which I use at the moment, but it's finally breaking down.

Razer make a good keyboard again once in a while, with standalone media and macro buttons, make Razer great again ❤. or this again pretty pwwiisisisis <3
https://www2.razer.com/eu-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-anansi
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I started gaming on coin operated arcade machines. I can't say for certain because I was around 10 or so, but I walked into a filling station near where we lived and saw Space Invaders. One dollar later, four silver tokens begrudgingly parceled out by my mom, and I was hooked. Then a few months later my dad brought home a Magnavox Odyssey². After he got tired of playing its version of one-on-one basketball I got my hands on the controller and there was no looking back. I misspent my youth, and a whole lot of cash, in a variety of arcades over the next couple of decades. With the advent of PC gaming I got hooked on first-person shooters bad. Of course I played Quake, Unreal Tournament, and so forth, but I will ALWAYS have a soft spot for Tribes and Tribes 2. I seriously used to dream Tribes-2 dreams, I loved that game so much. Looking for a competitive edge I was an early adopter of the Razer Boomslang, literally. I read, I think it was a post from Min-Liang Tan, about it on a gaming forum somewhere (HardOCP?) and signed up. I still have it in its collector's tin. Using the Razer Naga I solo'd Clarence the Mechateddy during the Champions Online first holiday event (which meant I got the ultra-rare drop almost every time, much to the displeasure of other heroes *snicker*). I needed ALL of the buttons to juggle all the abilities necessary to make it possible. So thanks for producing such a beast, it simply wouldn't have worked otherwise, at least not without a third hand. It's safe to say Razer had a significant impact on my gaming history. From the moment it started up to today. I seriously LUSTED after the concept Razer laptop with integrated 'optimus maximus' keyboard. But who didn't?
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For me, it was the moment I first turned on my laptop. I had been using low-tier laptops and was never able to run any games that I wanted to. But after I got married, I decided to upgrade to my dream laptop and was stunned at the difference. Worthy of 1 million fans for sure. Congrats on the achievement and helping people like myself to achieving their dreams!
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How does the respawn taste?
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I was playing Minecraft on PS3 with some school friends, playing survival working together to make an amazing town, we moved to PS4 to play minecraft, we slowly drifted away but my love for minecraft didn't, so when I finally got a gaming PC I bought a minecraft account among many other steam games, my passion for gaming is growing stronger by the day. I may not play with these friends anymore but those times will never be forgotten!
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In grade six I broke my femur bone in four chunks, spiral. It was a nasty break, I spent around a month, month and a half on traction, hooked up to an ivy, on morphine.

The first game that captivated me, held my attention was Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the N64. No incredible actual gaming story here... just a kid alone in a room with a player guide, trying to save the day.

To go from that experience to starting and finishing Ocarina of Time was a huge accomplishment. That game will always hold a special place in my heart.

[Close second and third place go to the first time I plugged in and played Super Mario 64. (Before I broke my leg) Almost finishing Persona 5 on hard, had to change the difficulty to medium. As an adult, that's my favourite game of all time. That doesn't count as a gaming achievement...I failed.]
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I knew i was a gamer when i was around 20... I was an apprentice and lived alone in a very small 1 room roof appartment/oven
My computer at the time sucked big time and could only run cs 1.6 at 30fps so i did the logical thing and stopped spending money... So a couple of 10lbs bags of rice was my only food for 3 months... But i ended up getting a new (used) computer that could run the new games and i was able to game with my friends
I think i was halfway through the first bag/sack of rice when i realised that 1. I was a moron for doing this and 2. If this didnt prove i was addicted to gaming nothing else would

It was the best feeling ever finally getting that computer booted up
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As a young man then (23 years ago), I played Tomb Raider (the very first 3D game) on Sega Saturn. I fell in love with the game at the very moment I started playing and spent hours upon hours, guiding archaeologist Lara through a series of tombs and mysterious locations, searching for treasures. Till this very day, I still remember the first Tomb Raider game that I played … it is memorable and really fun and gaming has since been an integral part of my life.
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August 17, 2019

Quarter finals against Beşiktaş at TCL, we've overcome from 1-2 deficit and won the series 3-2, my first year of pro-scene coaching and it's a moment that i'll never forget, the chants and crowd were unbelievable.

Gratz on reaching 1 million.

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Gosh, this will be a long story, but it’s one of my favorite and most loved memories. When I was super young. My family had a house fire that took just about everything from us, including our beloved pet, so we lived in a hotel for a few weeks until we had to rent out a house for all 7 of us. The people renting out the house felt absolutely terrible about what we had lost. So they left a PS2 for my older brothers to play on. There were a few games, I don’t remember any of them. But, I do remember one my eldest brother got from a friend from his school during the last few weeks I was in the house.

Kingdom Hearts.

Everyday, my brother would come home from school and play. I would always drop everything I was doing and watch him.

It would bring me such joy watching him play and every time a new game came out after that, I wouldn’t play it, I just loved watching him play through it.

(Now that I’m much older, I realize, older brothers are the creators of the Let’s Plays!)

Even at age 26 and 19, when the Kingdom Hearts 3 came out. Even with his busy season as an accountant. I still went to his apartment for a week and waited everyday until he got home for him to start playing again.

Now, the reason for all this backstory is to explain, why I’m such a heavy gamer.

I knew I wanted to stay close to my siblings, they mean the world to me, especially my little sister, but the moment. That sweet moment when I realized I was a gamer and would always be one. Was when we were playing Super Smash Brothers Melee. 4/5 of us were playing, I was watching. Watching the fight, eager to see the winner, learning combos. I wanted to be better. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to play video games until I was the best I could be. But I also, I never wanted to lose the connection they gave my siblings and I. Now, whenever there is a new game we are interested in, we all play together, but as of recently, I’ve remembered that my little sister. The youngest of us 5. She, like me, only receives hand-me-downs. So, I want to give this a shot so I can get her something new, beyond the 10 year old laptop. I also kinda just wanted to share how important video games can be. Especially to families. They bring people together and I really hope there are more stories like mine out there. It would be a nice change to what people think video games do. Anyway, thanks for reading!
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So. Hmm. I started playing Clash of Clans back in 2013, on my tablet. My mom didn't let me play much but I did. I was low-key obsessed with the game. I knew all the figures DPS, HP, time to upgrade, resources needed to upgrade, and levels and bla bla bla. I was always walking on the road thinking of new strategies and stuff. I one day realized that I was a good CoC player. Hang on that thought(it'll come in handy).

In 2017 I built my PC. I was inspired by Linus, from LinusTechTips. And it has literally changed my life.
The first game I took seriously was Paladins, and very soon I was daydreaming about the game at school, at the gym and even in the toilet. I watched lots of Youtube to learn the game and I got good, fast. I played Paladins religiously every day until about the time Fortnite came out. At that point no one knew about Fortnite, the game was 3 days old. I got in, and I could not stop playing. Back in the day, Fortnite's servers were mostly empty this meant long queues but more importantly, THE GAME RAN SMOOTH AF, now due to my geographic location there's a lot of lag cuz the players nearer to the server get the preferential treatment.
Anyways, I got real good at Fortnite. And I played Fortnite for the next 12 months bla bla bla.
More importantly, when Fortnite came out I realized that I was good at games and therefore I was a gamer.

More importantly after building my PC, I just got into computer hardware and spent hours learning new stuff about tech. This and the time I spent gaming meant my grades tanked. I was amongst the top 5% of my year while being younger. My grades didn't drop cuz I was spending time on my PC, my grades dropped cuz I was amazed to find that you can learn, literally, anything online. This just blew my mind and 3 years ago, I decided I would learn stuff online and do my own thing instead of spending thousands of bucks on a university.
Because of my computer I've learnt video editing, colour grading, audio manipulation and a huge lot about computer systems.

Special thanks to my Grandfather who refused to let me pay for the computer parts. I owe you a massive one
Thankyou Razer for giving me a voice and platform
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Well one day i was looking for a game to play on steam then i saw i had 300 hours on bloons td6
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I remember when I first played a game it was league of legends, I tought it was so annoying to use QWER for your abilities and for items 1234 so my grandad bought me in 2012 the Razer Naga Hex mice. First I was like this isn't handy at all, but after I tried it for a few months I couldn't play without anymore. Now I still have the same mice. I played dozens of games with it and it never let me down.

But the game that I totally fits the description is totally the Borderlands franchise, it kept me from sleeping, eating, raving or anything else.

All I can say once you go Razer Naga...
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To me, the best gaming moment was when my brother from another mother invited me over to his house because he said it was important and there was also a sports game to watch and play some League of Legends after. After eating some delicious food he made he asks me "you wanna have a heart attack now or later?" me not knowing what he meant by that I told him "I'll have it now" and he pulls out a box from Amazon and puts it on the table with a "Happy Birthday", it was my birthday that day. Hesitant to open it at first because I thought it was a prank. As I proceeded to open it I see the that it was a GeForce GTX 1660ti. To others this may seem like a crap card but it was something I was saving up to get for a while since it was inexpensive and money was tight. Each time I saved up for it I had to use the money and start over. I had a PC I built a few months back but always used the onboard gpu cause I was let go from my job as I was buying the parts 1 by 1. Ever since then I have enjoyed games I was never able to play when using the onboard gpu and to me, that was the best gaming experience I've ever had. Thanks "Laitu"
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I cannot exactly pinpoint a moment in time where I realised I was a gamer. My father was one, and I used to watch him play Starcraft, Warcraft III and then eventually WoW vanilla. So one day when I was small he brought home a PS2 and, although we never had any memory cards for it, I loved sitting in front of our old tv and play Street Fighter and Oddworld Abe's Oddysee 💚
From there, my mother would often complain to my father that I was a girl and I should not be playing violent videogames (late '90s - so please don't judge my mother 💚 she's now very accepting and even tried videogames a couple of times with me), but they both already knew I wasn't into "girly" things. They let me play games, bought me a PS3 when it came out, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, and finally my very own laptop (I called it my personal desk hoover for how much noise the fan would make lol). But yeah, gaming has always played a big part in my life, and I wouldn't be myself, and I wouldn't have had the chance to meet so many incredible people if it weren't for videogames 💚
ObsidianZed
It wasn't a big monumentous epiphany, but I was born club footed, so I've had a handful of surgeries on my feet and was in casts for the first few years of my life. Due to this, I obviously wasn't able to do much in the way of physical activity, and was largely confined to a bed or couch. Since I was in the hospital so often, it seemed I was sick a lot too. My parents first got me a Sega Genesis, and Sonic The Hedgehog was my first real game. I never had a Nintendo, NES or SNES, growing up, so Sonic was my game.
From there on, I had just kind of fell in love with games and technology and fantastical stories, moving onto Playstation 1-4, eventually diving into PC gaming and a little Xbox thrown in here and there.
Today, I'm still gaming strong and even met my girlfriend over a love of games. We started gaming together playing Dark Souls 3, and we survived! Even beat it a handful of times together. Now we're just enjoying ourselves and having fun with anything from retro gaming to console/PC games, and board games to tabletop games.
Life is good.
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That defining moment for me was 2005, I was only 4 years old and my uncle gave me his Gameboy Advanced Special Edition. The games he left me with were Mario Kart Circuit, Guilty Gear X, and Megaman Zero 1 and 3. I was hooked on all three. I ended up completing all the courses in Mario Kart by the end of the year. It took me a good year to complete Megaman Zero, but I would play from the morning to night trying to complete it. When I needed a break I would play the survival mode of Guilty Gear X for hours. Then later that year around Christmas time my cousin gifted me Pokémon Fire Red Edition and Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones. Pokémon easily became one of my all time favorite games and made me fall in love with the Nintendo franchise over time, I would play it nonstop and I would train my team to max level and eventually restart again. Fire Emblem also became a personal favorite that I played through multiple times over. My uncle was the one who lead me down the path of a gamer, and now I play games such as League of Legends and all those steam games. I am currently working toward building my own gaming pc.
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My defining moment has to be the day i got my deathadder elite. It was my first gaming equipment and all I had to game on was my school use laptop ,I didn't even have a table to play on back then. I remember I spent the whole day playing that I actually couldn't walk right the next day. Went to a Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) where the physician told me I dislocated my ankle by gaming too while sitting cross legged. Never stopped me from gaming though
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